{"id":132589,"date":"2024-11-06T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132589"},"modified":"2024-11-06T18:37:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T23:37:46","slug":"church-times-an-interview-with-art-historian-neil-macgregor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132589","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) An interview with art historian Neil MacGregor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Beginning with two works by Titian,\u00a0<em>Noli Me Tangere<\/em>\u00a0(<em>c<\/em>.1514) and\u00a0<em>Bacchus and Ariadne<\/em>\u00a0(1520-23), Mr MacGregor says that they tell essentially the same story.\u00a0<em>Noli Me Tangere<\/em>\u00a0has an added resonance because it was one of the paintings chosen by wartime Londoners to be the National Gallery\u2019s picture of the month, when the entire national collection was sheltered from the bombing in a Welsh mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: minion-pro, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">\u201cThe thing that fascinated me was how much more difficult people found it to engage with that picture if they were not Christian than to engage with Titian\u2019s<span>\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Bacchus and Ariadne<\/em>. But the<span>\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Bacchus and Ariadne<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span>and<span>\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Noli Me Tangere<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span>are about the same subject.<\/p><p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: minion-pro, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">\u201cThey\u2019re about a woman who has loved someone, who has been abandoned, and then who encounters a god, and the encounter with a god changes her life, and brings her new life, new hope. And, for most visitors, it\u2019s much easier to engage with the<span>\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Bacchus and Ariadne<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span>. . . because we know it\u2019s a myth. We know it is about a truth that is absolutely universal and perpetuates, even though that event may never have happened. It speaks to the permanent truth, and enduring truth.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2024\/1-november\/features\/features\/an-interview-with-art-historian-neil-macgregor\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Neil MacGregor tells Susan Gray about the challenges of publicly displaying works of art which represent faith<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ueDipommqx\">https:\/\/t.co\/ueDipommqx<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1852588370905497738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning with two works by Titian,\u00a0Noli Me Tangere\u00a0(c.1514) and\u00a0Bacchus and Ariadne\u00a0(1520-23), Mr MacGregor says that they tell essentially the same story.\u00a0Noli Me Tangere\u00a0has an added resonance because it was one of the paintings chosen by wartime Londoners to be the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132589\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,133,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-history","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132589"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132594,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132589\/revisions\/132594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}